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You may earn a maximum of 3 points toward your final grade by doing the above and answering the questions and submitting them on time (no later than Friday, September 8). Any worksheets submitted after the deadline will get a 0. You will be rewarded a maximum of 3 points if I judge your work to be above average. You will receive 2 points if your work is average, that is it may have a few minor mistakes in some of the answers but demonstrates correct grammar and indicates that some, but not all, of the answers, are acceptable and well expressed. You will earn only 1 point if you simply answered the questions and/or if you use poor grammar and if there are signs that you have not read the material on which your answers are based.
1. In the space below, describe the stasis at the beginning of the play NOT THE FILM of Real Women Have Curves. In other words, “Where are we?” “When is it (time, day, and year)?” “Who are the people involved?” “What is the dramatic situation in which the characters find themselves as the play unfolds?”
There are five women we initially meet. They range in both age and weight, with age ranging from teen years to those in their late 50's, I believe. They all work at a small dress factory that's owned by no other than Estela. She hasn't gotten a Green Card yet and all her workers have. She is worried about being deported if caught and hopes Ana will help work in the shop, yet Ana has dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. This occurs during the September month of 1987 in Los Angeles, California. The characters are Rosali, Estela, Pancha, Ana, and Carmen in the opening scene.
2. What is the intrusion that causes the stasis to be broken in the play and the dramatic action to develop, often at an increasingly rapid pace, to the end of the play?
The intrusion of the play is when Estela begins to actually tell her workers that she's actually illegally and in dept for the machines. She needs to complete their current order in order to get it.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor which is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place?
Since it's during the 1980's, many immigrants are illegally wowrking and crossing into the U.S.. The tension of this play is created due to Estela not having her paper and having the threat of being deported.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
Obviously will Estela get her papers? What about her dresses and debt? Will Ana get to have a chance at the future with College?
5. Use Ana, the central character, to answer the questions. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, that is, the dramatic actions that are taken by that character. Examine what Ana wants (NOTE: In Real Women Ana's wants seem to be in flux. They change as the play progresses). The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles.
Ana against herself and society: Ana has the Actual Chance to be able to escape this life of the factory and can instead move forwards to actually have a future outside of her home (kinda like the Glass Meagnarie). She has to acknowledge that she's going to be leaving behind her own society and start a brand new way of living that none before her have gotten the chance to. Another aspect is that Ana has to go out into the unknown and away from everything she's ever known to go to college.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Real Women Have Curves.
When Estrela actually gets the chance to make her green card a reality after all her workers give her their salaries in order to give her the best chance at getting it. They also hint at her making her own company and profiting from her own honest cloths line.
7. Provide at least three examples of images in Real Women. How does the title of the play help us understand the images in the play? (Remember Ball says that, “An image is the use of something we know that tells us something we don’t know.” He goes on to say that images invoke and expand, rather than define and limit.”)
Well the Machines that are operated show all the stress and dedication the women put into working to make a bare minimum of currency. The dresses are sold for far more than they are worth and the employees don't actually make as much pay for it.
The Dresses themselves represent the societal norm that real women should be skinny and look good in those dresses, and yet discriminate that real women shouldn't have actual curves on their bodies.
Lastly: The Image of differential ages in the families mean. For the mother she's worked in the factory for almost all her life and she doesn't expect herself to leave anytime soon, though she should retire. Her older daughter hasn't been married and is getting older by the day, too involved with her business to get a man. And the Youngest, who wants to escape, but has to choose between a fate similar to her parents, or making her own one.
8. Ordinarily, there are many themes in most plays. List the themes in Real Women.
Family-Ties/ Self-Esteem/ Immigration/ Body Consciousness/ and Destiny
9. Most American plays have something to do with family and/or family relationships. What does family have to do with the dramatic action in Real Women? Is family redefined in this play? If so, how and why?
Well you can look at how the women of the family interact with one another. There tends to be a close knit unity among them as they relate to their societies struggles as women more than any other member of their family can. In the dramatic action you also look at how some in the family wish to remain back in the old ways while the newer younger generation- believe that they have the ability to make a better life for themselves.
You may earn a maximum of 3 points toward your final grade by doing the above and answering the questions and submitting them on time (no later than Friday, September 8). Any worksheets submitted after the deadline will get a 0.
You will be rewarded a maximum of 3 points if I judge your work to be above average. You will receive 2 points if your work is average, that is it may have a few minor mistakes in some of the answers but demonstrates correct grammar and indicates that some, but not all, of the answers, are acceptable and well expressed. You will earn only 1 point if you simply answered the questions and/or if you use poor grammar and if there are signs that you have not read the material on which your answers are based.
1. In the space below, describe the stasis at the beginning of the play NOT THE FILM of Real Women Have Curves. In other words, “Where are we?” “When is it (time, day, and year)?” “Who are the people involved?” “What is the dramatic situation in which the characters find themselves as the play unfolds?”
There are five women we initially meet. They range in both age and weight, with age ranging from teen years to those in their late 50's, I believe. They all work at a small dress factory that's owned by no other than Estela. She hasn't gotten a Green Card yet and all her workers have. She is worried about being deported if caught and hopes Ana will help work in the shop, yet Ana has dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. This occurs during the September month of 1987 in Los Angeles, California. The characters are Rosali, Estela, Pancha, Ana, and Carmen in the opening scene.
2. What is the intrusion that causes the stasis to be broken in the play and the dramatic action to develop, often at an increasingly rapid pace, to the end of the play?
The intrusion of the play is when Estela begins to actually tell her workers that she's actually illegally and in dept for the machines. She needs to complete their current order in order to get it.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor which is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place?
Since it's during the 1980's, many immigrants are illegally wowrking and crossing into the U.S.. The tension of this play is created due to Estela not having her paper and having the threat of being deported.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
Obviously will Estela get her papers? What about her dresses and debt? Will Ana get to have a chance at the future with College?
5. Use Ana, the central character, to answer the questions. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, that is, the dramatic actions that are taken by that character. Examine what Ana wants (NOTE: In Real Women Ana's wants seem to be in flux. They change as the play progresses). The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles.
Ana against herself and society: Ana has the Actual Chance to be able to escape this life of the factory and can instead move forwards to actually have a future outside of her home (kinda like the Glass Meagnarie). She has to acknowledge that she's going to be leaving behind her own society and start a brand new way of living that none before her have gotten the chance to. Another aspect is that Ana has to go out into the unknown and away from everything she's ever known to go to college.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Real Women Have Curves.
When Estrela actually gets the chance to make her green card a reality after all her workers give her their salaries in order to give her the best chance at getting it. They also hint at her making her own company and profiting from her own honest cloths line.
7. Provide at least three examples of images in Real Women. How does the title of the play help us understand the images in the play? (Remember Ball says that, “An image is the use of something we know that tells us something we don’t know.” He goes on to say that images invoke and expand, rather than define and limit.”)
Well the Machines that are operated show all the stress and dedication the women put into working to make a bare minimum of currency. The dresses are sold for far more than they are worth and the employees don't actually make as much pay for it.
The Dresses themselves represent the societal norm that real women should be skinny and look good in those dresses, and yet discriminate that real women shouldn't have actual curves on their bodies.
Lastly: The Image of differential ages in the families mean. For the mother she's worked in the factory for almost all her life and she doesn't expect herself to leave anytime soon, though she should retire. Her older daughter hasn't been married and is getting older by the day, too involved with her business to get a man. And the Youngest, who wants to escape, but has to choose between a fate similar to her parents, or making her own one.
8. Ordinarily, there are many themes in most plays. List the themes in Real Women.
Family-Ties/ Self-Esteem/ Immigration/ Body Consciousness/ and Destiny
9. Most American plays have something to do with family and/or family relationships. What does family have to do with the dramatic action in Real Women? Is family redefined in this play? If so, how and why?
Well you can look at how the women of the family interact with one another. There tends to be a close knit unity among them as they relate to their societies struggles as women more than any other member of their family can. In the dramatic action you also look at how some in the family wish to remain back in the old ways while the newer younger generation- believe that they have the ability to make a better life for themselves.